Without any presence of Asturian authorities, the defense minister, Margaret Oaks, has paid this noon a visit to the Cabo Noval Barrackslocated in sierowhere he was interested in the needs of the facilities and some of the services provided by the military in the region were explained to him in a very showy way.
Not even government delegate in AsturiasDelia Losa, neither him regional President, Adrián Barbón, nor any of the members of the regional government supported the visit of the Minister of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez most questioned in recent weeks on account of the crisis of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and the attacks of the Catalan separatists.
The Principality He assures that there has been no sit-in for the minister, alleging three issues for this. “In the first place, it was a strictly military act. Second, we already had other issues on the agenda committed. And, finally, we were not invited to attend,” regional sources say. Although, the presence of Adrián Barbón in acts of the Army in Asturias is more than frequent, an institution to which he has shown special affection and respect. The spokesperson for the regional executive, Melanie Alvarezassured for his part this afternoon that the absence of the members of the Government of the Principality is due to “a matter of framing or fitting agendas.”
In the same line, from the Government Delegation it was clarified that Delia Losa did not attend because it coincided with the acts of the 178th. anniversary of the Civil Guard and because it is considered a work visit and not an institutional one.
Margarita Robles did speak, however, with the soldier Borja Barbonbrother of the regional president, one of the musicians from the barracks who plays the bagpipes and who during the covid-19 pandemic served as a tracker.
The minister has been very affable and dialoguing with the high command and the troops of the barracks. However, she came and left with the very clear idea of not making statements to the journalists summoned to the event. She did find out that the barracks will have a new building within approximately two years. “We have grown in personnel and material, but not in infrastructure & rdquor ;, explained the highest authority of the military unit, Pedro Luis Gutierrez AlcalaColonel-in-Chief of the 3rd Prince Regiment.
Dressed in a light parka and black pants, Margarita Robles arrived at Cabo Noval accompanied by Amador Enseñat y Berea, Chief of Staff of the Army. He did not show any inconvenience in taking photos with many men and few women. He learned first-hand about the training that the Cabo Noval troops provide to colleagues from all over Spain so that all the soldiers who participate in combat actions are trained to care for their comrades who are injured. “Studies say that if something is not done in the first three or four minutes, many injuries can be fatal,” said Duarte Serrano, a SAMU doctor and Army reservist who leads the training process. The simulated attack on a truck carried out by the Cabo Noval soldiers was very illustrative and was, together with the institutional absences, the highlight of the presence of Minister Robles in the Asturias in which she has part of her roots and on the that it must adopt relevant decisions, such as the one referring to the land of the La Vega arms factory, in Oviedo.